- Hi everybody, how are you doing these days?

Do you love cooking these days?

I heard that all the time so many interesting messages

from you guys.

I'm so happy

because my recipes are shared by so many people like you!

Today's recipe is very special.

Let's make maeun-gamja-jorim, spicy braised potato.

One pound potato

and I will use also onion and garlic, garlic.

(knife chopping on wood)

Cut a little thick.

I just cut it around 1/2 inch (about 1.3 cm) thick.

And onion, we need the onion around five ounce.

Can you imagine, this is exactly five ounce?

(giggles)

five ounce.

When I measure, sometimes less or more

but sometimes like this exactly five ounce,

then I feel really, really happy, do you?

(laughs)

Just slice this and add here.

And let's add garlic.

Two garlic cloves, minced.

Three tablespoons soy sauce.

Gochugaru, hot pepper flakes, two tablespoons.

One teaspoon sugar.

These are large dried anchovies.

I always freeze these.

Five, six, seven.

Just heads are removed, inside removed.

Gut, remove the guts and heads.

Mix this together.

Smells good already.

Now we gotta add water, 1-1/2 cup water.

Garlicky, soy sauce, and onion.

okay, and then turn on the heat.

Medium-high heat for 10 minutes first.

American potato especially Idaho potato is

my favorite, really delicious!

When I came to America decades ago with my family

first place I lived in America was Missouri

in a small city, Columbia.

I went to a grocery store, and I couldn't believe!

A huge bag of potatoes, Idaho potatoes was so cheap!

Just only a few dollars!

At the time when I left Korea

potato in Korea was expensive at the time.

Around that time I had to live on the budget.

This potato was perfect!

Usually I make this dish with fish,

you know like a mackerel.

"Instead of fish let's use dried anchovies."

Anchovies, dried anchovies are also fish, aren't they?

(giggles)

This is only small portion.

I make this with only one pound of potato

but at the time I made all the potatoes,

several potatoes, and I cut them into big chunks and dried anchovies,

like a handful of anchovies, and I just boil it.

Sooner or later very delicious smells came out!

I had a neighbor,

she's Korean, Korean family living right next door.

She just came to my house, "Oh my, what's this smell?

"Wow, amazing smell, I'm so hungry."

So, we all shared it together.

When I make this recipe all good memories come alive!

My children were so young at the time

and I was younger than now, of course.

First when I came to America, everything was new to me,

all the products were new to me

and I used to go to Walmart and just kept checking on each item.

All were written in English!

I needed to translate what it is about, what it is used for.

One of my Chinese friends, she saw me a couple of times

while I was reading something in Walmart. She said,

"Oh, you can buy the whole Walmart!"

She just teased me. And around that time

I was always busy comparing price. "okay US dollar,

$1 is in Korean money is 1000 won,"

"okay how much is going to be, oh my so cheap!"

"Oh my, expensive!"

All the time, as a frugal housewife, ya know?

Probably, you guys are the same.

People like us, like home cooks, we are always frugal.

I always tell my friends,

"no matter how much money I have in my pocket,"

"I can save money every month."

Because instead of buying expensive fish

I just use dried anchovies, ya know, several dried anchovies

and then make delicious side dish like that.

If you know how to cook Korean food,

you can adjust very nicely to your budget

and you can save your money also

without losing any nutrients.

Anyway, today I talked too much but this side dish,

even though this is very simple and easy recipe,

it has a lot of, lot of stories and make me think.

10 minutes passed!

Oh my!

Yummy, yummy, and I just stir it a few times

and turn down the heat to medium.

(happy instrumental music)

15 minutes passed, so let's see.

Now, potato is really fully cooked, I can tell.

I'm going to turn off the heat.

These are my two other vegetable side dishes.

My favorite side dishes

and I'm going to eat with rice.

The last touch I need is

just mixing this broccoli.

I added my soup soy sauce, homemade soup soy sauce

and garlic and chopped green onion and let's add sesame oil.

And my next one, eggplant, gaji-namul.

All these recipes are available on my website.

I steamed my eggplant, Korean gochugaru, garlic,

green onion, sesame oil, and mix.

My eggplant dish, gaji-namul is my favorite.

I love this.

I buy Korean eggplants all the time.

When I find some fresh one I buy, so delicious.

Sesame seeds.

So sesame oily, garlicky.

My two delicious side dishes are made.

And the main side dish for today

is maeun-gamja-jorim, this potato.

Also I bring my rice.

Now, time for my potato.

Dried anchovies, you can eat them,

but usually children don't want to eat.

That's why I always eat them.

Rice, kimchi, I always cannot skip it,

potato dish, and broccoli, and eggplant.

Let's eat!

First, rice.

(makes yummy noise)

So delicious.

Only seven dried anchovies,

their full mission was completed, awesome, delicious.

(happy upbeat music)

I love this potato taste, so, so fluffy and savory

and really soy sauce and salty

and all go well together, melting in my mouth

when I chew with my rice.

This is a really good side dish.

You guys should make this, so cheap ingredients.

Today we made maeun-gamja-jorim, spicy braised potato.

Enjoy my recipe.

See you next time, bye.

(happy upbeat music)